"WORLD THEATRE" FROM YCs
HEIR appetites whetted and their critical faculties sharpened by the Shakespeare they have seen and heard in the last few months, New Zealanders will be glad’to hear that there’s more to come. With the anniversary of the poet’s birth falling on April 23, the NZBS is offering from :the four YC stations during the next few weeks five BBC World Theatre productions of his plays. Four of these---Measure for Measure, Richard II, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream-have been heard from New Zealand stations before, but the fifth, All's Well That Ends Weill, will be having its first playing in this country. The cast of this "problem play" includes Sir Lewis Casson as the King of France, Gladys Young as the Countess of Roussillon, and Barbara Jefford (see page 6) as
Helena. All’s Well That Ends Well lacks the poetry of the better-known comedies, but it has a well-constructed plot and presents a wonderful series of portraits. All’s Well That Ends Well will be heard from 4YC at 8.0 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, and 2YC at 7.30 p.m. on Sunday, April 26, and will be followed at these stations by A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure and Richard II. From 3YC and 1YC the series will start with Richard II at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, and 8.0 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, respectively. This will be followed by The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and All’s Well That Ends Well. April 23 is not only Shakespeare’s birthday but St. George’s Day as well LS es
and a number of stations will be noticing the occasion with special programmes. One of the most ambitious of these is an evening session from 3YA starting with Songs for St. George’s Day at 7.46 p.m. For Anzac Day, which aiso falls next week, most stations will broadcast special programmes and services. Among the most important of these is Peace and War, a short cantata for chorus and brass band written by Dr. Vernon Griffiths, Peace atid War will be heard from 2YZ at 10.30 am., 4YA at 2.45 p.m., and 2YA at approximately 4.0 p.m. The Slow Years Pass, a sequence of poems specially written for the NZBS by Ruth Gilbert and heard from stations in the four main centres last year, will be heard this year from the YZ stations. Also to be heard again is The Day Set Apart: the Remembrance of Anzac Day. This will be broadcast from 2XN at 9.4 pm. 2YZ at 7.0 p.m.,. and from 4YZ at 8.25 p.m. on Friday, April 24.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 15
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434"WORLD THEATRE" FROM YCs New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 15
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